At first everyone spoke the same language, but after some of them moved from the east11.2 from the east: Or “to the east.” and settled in Babylonia,11.2 Babylonia: See the note at 10.6-20. they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world. But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower, he said: These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want. Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other. So the people had to stop building the city, because the Lord confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel got its name.
11.8,9 Babel: In Hebrew “Babel” sounds like “confused.” Genesis 11:1-9
The people who built the tower of Babel wanted to reach the sky with their construction project. But when the Lord saw what they were doing, He was not pleased with the effort. In fact, God intervened and confused the people by making them speak different languages so they could not work together.
It is the same today! Most people believe that the whole world working together would be a good thing, and that reaching the stars with our technology would be pleasing to God. Generally, great technological advances cause us to be prideful and draw us away from dependence on God.
God wants us to depend on Him and not on our technology and creativity! Ask yourself daily the question: Am I depending on my God or my computer? If you are trusting in and depending on your computer and not on God don't be amazed when your computer crashes for no apparent reason!
"Lord Jesus, like the people in the city of Babel I want to reach the sky, but I want to reach it in Your arms and not in my own strength. Praise Your Holy Name, now and forever. Amen."
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